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I know famous musicians, I know actors and film stars and millionaires and novelists and top lawyers and television executives and magazine editors and national journalists and dustbinmen and hairdressers, all who were looked after children, fostered, adopted or orphaned, and many of them grow into their adult lives in fear of speaking of their background, as if it may somehow weaken their standing in the foreground, as if it were somehow Kryptonite, as if it were a time bomb strapped on the inside.
You take something which is that good and then you weaken it on purpose, making all of us less secure as an end result.
One is, you said weaken encryption.
So recently, we heard a lot about how social media helps empower protest, and that's true, but after more than a decade of studying and participating in multiple social movements, I've come to realize that the way technology empowers social movements can also paradoxically help weaken them.
But nowadays, the millions of queen bees distributed in commercial hives are bred from just a few original queens, which raises the worry about a lack of genetic diversity which could weaken bees' defenses against pathogens and pests.
As for knuckle-cracking, one study suggests that all that joint stretching and bubble bursting can cause your hands to swell and weaken your grip.
As we get older, synapses begin to falter and weaken, affecting how easily we can retrieve memories.
But holding it in for too long, forcing out your urine too fast, or urinating without proper physical support may over time weaken or overwork that muscular sling.
But, if heartburn starts happening regularly, it can weaken the LES muscle over time, letting more and more acid escape.
Yet authorities in countries like the United States, the United Kingdom and many other democracies are seeking to use the law to either weaken or outright ban strong encryption, because the bad guys are using it, too.
But by improving parenting and caregiver support, it may be possible to weaken the links between war and psychological difficulties in children and their families.
Net pens are also susceptible to escapes, unleashing huge numbers of fish which compete for resources and weaken the local gene pool with genes adapted for captivity.
Too much efficiency can weaken itself.
Now there's a mood to put some of that stuff back in place, but the lobbyists are already there trying to weaken the regulations after the legislation has just passed.
Their bones and muscles weaken, and their cardiovascular system and their immune system change.
This paradox is designed to weaken the audience's reaction to the central act of the movie.
Sorry Wim you have made amazing movies in the past that stay neutral of the politics and for good reason, polemics are your weak point and they weaken this a well-made, amazingly filmed movie with absurd characters, dialog and plotting.
There was a lot of material that really helped weaken this film that could have been edited out, and wasn't.
In an attempt to dazzle the audience by interweaving the past with the present using slick editing techniques, the directors weaken the credibility of the story as well as confuse the audience.
Autocratic regimes weaken themselves by restricting free speech and allowing corruption to spread.
Indeed, oil rents eventually weaken state institutions, and this hollowing out of the state often gives rise to growing discontent.
The article goes on to explain that being surrounded by male rivals for her job may fatally weaken Barra, as if male CEOs were not also surrounded by would-be rivals.
The caudillo who oversaw the glory days of the 1990's exited the race to save himself, to avoid a defeat, and to weaken Nestor Kirchner, the man from Patagonia who is now Argentina's 49 th president.
Nonetheless, there are three further reasons to believe that Trump’s hold on power will weaken significantly in the coming months.
Lastly, Trump’s deregulation agenda will not boost economic growth, and may actually weaken it over time.
In India, this takes the form of loan waivers for distressed farmers (which weaken the banks); price controls for water, electricity, and public transportation (which wreck government budgets and undermine the prospect of long-term investment in those areas); and more subsidized food in the corrupt and inefficient public distribution system.
If Valls fails, his defeat will further weaken Hollande’s chances of winning a second term.
On the contrary, they reflect a changing global political agenda that has relegated the question to a lower tier of importance, which is likely to weaken Israel’s incentive to rethink its suppression of Palestine.
They complain that such a generous family benefit will weaken work incentives and blow up the government budget.
Although large cities will remain as closed as ever, the new policy will dramatically weaken the institutional foundation of China’s long history of urban-rural and regional divides.
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